Omaha daily bee., 1887-10-24
Iowa Items,

Work has commenced on the union
depot at Ottumwa.
A woman's exchange is a new institu-
tion in Burlington.
Professional burglars done very
profitable business at Grinnell last week.
The coal companies Mt What Cheer
are digging and shipping $50 carloads
day.
The school population of Charles
City is ,163, OF whom $40 are boys and
593 girls.
The Janesville factory made 35 900
pounds of butter during the month of
September. r
The Tibbles sewing machine COM
pany is still flirting with Des Moines
and Burlington and working up q bonus
rivalry.
The forty-sixth annual meeting of the
Iowa Baptist state convention, convened
at Usage Thursday and remains in ses-
sion six days.
"Old Zion," the first brick Methodist
church built in Iowa, located at Bur-
lington, has recently been transformed
into theater.
The Shenandoah normal college
which now has 457 students in attend
ance, is said to be the largest private
school in Iowa.
The grand order OF horse thief ex-
tinguishers met in Des Moines last
week and examined the latest styles
OF hemp and slip knots.
The school population Of Linn county
is 1924, an increase of 339 over last
year. The average salary paid to male
teachers is $41.7S per month, and to fe-
| males $27.25.
At Dubuque two women presented
| themselves twice and asked to have
their names registered as electors. They
| were refused. At Des Moines they are,
however, allowed to register.
Rev. DR.. Burrell, formerly OF Du-
tor of the Westminster Presbyterian
church at Minneapolis. "When the
| Lord calls, SO literally must we obey"
The work of sinking the artesian we'll
| in the court house square at Des Moines
has been indefinitely suspended. The
| contractor has thrown up his contract
| in disgust. The we'll is down about l3O
feet.
The drouth OF the past summer has,
no doubt, in the long run, been great
benefit to Iowa. Hundreds of acres of
land have been drained, many artesian
wells dug, and also gas discovered, all
the result OF the dry season.
John E. Buckner, a baggage agitator
on the Milwaukee road, has been jailed
at Elk Point on the charge Of bigamy.
Last February he married q daughter of
William Belky, of Union county, while
a wife and three children longed for his
| presence in Kansas. He was preparing
to take wife No. to Montana, but wife
No. 2 and a warrant spoiled the arrange
ment.
The monthly Bulletin for October, the
official publication of the Iowa board of
health, expresses surprise at the large
number of deaths occurring in Iowa
from diseases of the respiratory organs
| bronchitis, pneumonia and cOnsump-
tiOn. They are not rs common nor SO
fatal as in the older states, but more
prevalent than there is necessity for.
They are largely attributable to ex-
pOsure when the body is least able to
endure u marked fall in the tempera-
ture.
Dakota.
Aberdeen is talking for creamery.
The Illinois Central is building a
large depot in Sioux Falls.
| jamestown is the see city of the
Catholic diocese of north Dakota.
Fifty thousand dollars worth of prop
erty at Park river was destroyed by fire
last week.
The new opera house at Watertown
will be dedicated November IA. Emma
Abbott will occupy the pulpit.
The farmers of Nelson county have
formed a pool and propose to sell their
grain this year in lump. They have
1875 900 bushels and will sell to the high
est bidder. They think it Will go to
Duluth, but Minneapolis or Chicago can
have it by bidding higher.